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EC-UNDP Electoral Assistance Projects Update | March 2019 2 SUMMARY EC-UNDP 1 - 31 March, 2019 Electoral Assistance Projects Update This report provides an overview of all active EU funded and UNDP implemented electoral assistance projects. AFGHANISTAN LEBANON NEPAL GUINEA- LIBYA BISSAU SOMALIA LIBERIA KENYA SOLOMON ISLANDS MALAWI ZIMBABWE MADAGASCAR Electoral Support Project, Nepal Layout design by Rochan Kadariya, UNDP Electoral Support Project, Nepal NEWS HIGHLIGHTS On 10 March, the legislative elections were successfully held. Following the confirmation of the provisional results by the National Electoral Commission, political parties and the President of the Republic issued statements accepting the results. GUINEA-BISSAU On 9 March, the NIEC held discussions with political parties at a round-table meeting in Mogadishu. To date, the NIEC has provided temporary registration certificates to 43 political parties. SOMALIA The project supported the launch of the official campaign period and 3 political party televised debates on 7, 14 and 26 March in Lilongwe, Blantyre and Mzuzu respectively. MALAWI EC-UNDP Electoral Assistance Projects Update | March 2019 2 SUMMARY GUINEA-BISSAU: Legislative elections were and Incitement to Violence’ was organised on 14 successfully held nationwide on 10 March. - March. Provisional election results announced on 13 March, considered final as of 15 March. NEPAL: The Electoral Support Project submitted the Electoral Dispute Resolution (EDR) training manual to KENYA: The project supported the Office of the the Election Commission of Nepal. Registrar of Political Parties in the finalisation of its Strategic Plan. The project co-supported the Judiciary SOLOMON ISLANDS: The electoral office, with Training Institute and the Judiciary Committee on support from the project, completed printing of ballot Elections in the organisation of an electoral dispute papers for national election in time. - The electoral resolution debrief for High Court Judges to evaluate office, supported by the project, successfully organised its performance, assess lessons learnt and identify the first time ever early voting for police and electoral lessons that arose from adjudication of election officials on 21 March. - The project continued to provide petitions from the 2017 elections. - The project support to voter education and awareness raising supported the development and launch of various activities. - From 4 to 8 March, the project organised knowledge products. the second school for 19 women intending to run for the 2019 elections for provincial assemblies. LEBANON: The project supported the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities in candidate’s registration, SOMALIA: In March, the UNDP/UNSOM Integrated election operations, training of polling officials, voter Electoral Support Group (IESG) held a series of education campaign. - The project also supported strategic sessions with Commissioners and senior the Supervisory Commission of Election by providing members of the Secretariat to discuss electoral technical support to the observers and media timelines, crucial decisions for next year’s voter accreditation process, and to the media monitoring registration, and issues on institutional governance. process. - On 9 March, the NIEC held discussions with political parties at a round-table meeting in Mogadishu. To LIBERIA: In an effort to ensure institutional and date, the NIEC has provided temporary registration human capacity building at the National Elections certificates to 43 political parties. - The NIEC opened Commission, the project has embarked on a this month offices also in Hirshabelle and Galmudug. number of interventions under the 2019 work plan with the aim of supporting NEC in discharging its ZIMBABWE: ZIM-ECO project has been providing statutory mandate, namely, to conduct free fair and support in key capacity building and institutional credible elections in Liberia. It is worth noting that strengthening areas of election operations, including with the support of the project, the Commission planning, review processes, knowledge management, has made some gains particularly with respect to polling process, Biometric Voter Registration (BVR), taking ownership of election administration in the training requirements in pre-election, election and country. - The month of March 2019 witnessed the post-election period, voter education, stakeholder implementations of key activities geared toward engagement, gender mainstreaming, inclusivity institutional and human capacity strengthening. and election dispute resolution. An electoral cycle approach has been adopted by the project to ensure LIBYA: The project supported the third High National that issues and recommendations from one election Elections Commission (HNEC) Training-of-Trainer cycle can be addressed in the next one (2018-2023). (ToT) workshop in Benghazi from 3 to 7 March 2019 which received an excellent feedback from participants. MALAWI: The project supported the launch of the official campaign period and political party televised debates. - The training of the police on electoral security issues has been picking up momentum including the training of mobile investigators and prosecutors on electoral offences (70 participants) and the training on public order management and electoral security management for company commanders (40 company commanders and 70 platoon commanders). - A workshop on ‘Hate Speech TABLE OF CONTENTS ONGOING ELECTORAL PROJECTS WITH EU FUNDING ............................ 1 GUINEA-BISSAU ....................................................................................................... 2 KENYA ........................................................................................................................... 5 LEBANON .................................................................................................................... 7 LIBERIA ......................................................................................................................... 10 LIBYA ............................................................................................................................. 12 MALAWI ....................................................................................................................... 14 NEPAL ........................................................................................................................... 16 SOLOMON ISLANDS ............................................................................................... 18 SOMALIA ..................................................................................................................... 22 ZIMBABWE ................................................................................................................. 26 ONGOING ELECTORAL PROJECTS WITH EU FUNDING Country Project Title Reference EU Contribution Start Date End Date Afghanistan UN Electoral Support Project DCI-ASIE/2015/368-884 € 15,500,000.00 29.12.15 31.12.19 (UNESP) Guinea- Support to Electoral Cycle in EDF 2018/401-213 € 2,500,000.00 15.10.18 15.01.20 Bissau Guinea-Bissau 2018-2019 Kenya Strengthening of the Electoral FED/2016/372/463 € 5,000,000.00 13.02.16 30.06.19 Processes in Kenya Project (SEPK) Lebanon EU 2018-2020 Electoral Support ENI/2018/395-460 € 2,750,000.00 01.01.18 31.12.19 to Lebanon Liberia Support to the 2015-2018 FED/2015/367-723 € 10,000,000.00 01.06.15 31.05.19 Liberian Electoral Cycle Madagascar Soutien au Cycle Electoral à FED/2018/398-673 € 1,500,000.00 04.07.18 31.08.19 Madagascar (SACEM) Malawi Malawi Electoral Cycle Support: 2017/389-162 € 2,500,000.00 11.10.17 10.04.20 2017-2019 (MECS) Nepal Electoral Support Project- DCI-ASIE/2012/305-833 € 10,050,000.00 12.01.12 28.12.19 Institutional Strengthening and Professional Development Support for the Election Commission of Nepal (ESP) Libya Promoting Elections for the ICSP/2018/395-667 € 5,000,000.00 01.11.17 01.11.20 People of Libya (PEPOL) Solomon Strengthening the Electoral Cycle FED/2013/328-922 € 3,500,000.00 01.07.13 27.08.19 Islands in the Solomon Islands Project (SECSIP) Somalia Joint Programme for Support FED/2015/366-291 € 5,193,878.00 21.11.15 31.12.19 to the Electoral Process in the FED/2015/360-953 Federal Republic of Somalia Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Electoral Commission FED/2016/380-895 € 5,590,000.00 01.09.16 30.08.20 Capacity Building Project (ZIM- ECO) EC-UNDP Electoral Assistance Projects Update | March 2019 1 GUINEA-BISSAU Photo credit: IESU SUPPORT TO THE ELECTORAL CYCLE 2018-2019 The “Support to Elections Cycle in Guinea-Bissau 2018-2019” project aims to address the Guinea-Bissau capacity to hold legitimate, transparent and credible elections in accordance with domestic legislation and international standards. The project provides technical assistance to the Elections Management Bodies (CNE – National Election Commission - and GTAPE – Bureau of Technical Support to the Electoral Process) on areas of voters’ registration, elections logistics, electoral operations, civic education, information technologies. It also provides financial assistance to these operations and for the purchase of polling station kit’ consumables. HIGHLIGHTS • Legislative elections were successfully held nationwide on 10 March. • Provisional election results announced on 13 March, considered final as of 15 March. I. Project activities during the reporting period UN Electoral Assistance to the electoral management bodies in Guinea-Bissau – the National Electoral Commission (CNE), and the Technical Support Office to the Electoral Process (GTAPE) – is being provided
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